Bookholder for cabinets



Sept. 2, 1941. w. H. WEI GHT BOOKHOLDER FOR CABINETS Filed Feb. 23, 1940ATTORNEYS WITNESS Patented Sept. 2, 1941 STTES PATENT OFFICE BOOKHOLDERFOR CABINETS Wilmer H. Weight, Aliquippa, Pa.

Application February 23, 1940, Serial No. 320,481

1 Claim. (01. 312-188) This invention relates to book holders, and itsgeneral object is to provide a holder that is primarily designed to bebuilt within a kitchen cabinet, cupboard or the like, for supportingrecipes which are clamped or detachably secured thereto, the recipesupporting means being slidably mounted for movement into and out of thecabinet and when in closed position gives the appearance of a drawer butwhen in open position provides a shelf disposed at an inclination, sothat the recipes can be easily and conveniently read during the processof carrying out the instructions contained therein.

A further object is to provide a holder of the character set forth thatincludes automatic i1- luminating means for the recipes and which isrendered active when the recipe supporting means is moved to openposition and extinguished when moved to closed position.

Another object is to provide a holder that includes spring clampingmeans for detachably securing the recipes to the receiving andsupporting means therefor, against casual removal or displacement and ineither sheet or book form and which will hold a book in open position.

A still further object is to provide a holder that can be installed incabinets now in general use, is simple in construction, inexpensive tomanufacture, and extremely efiicient in operation, use and service.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several'parts, to behereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing andspecifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like orcorresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front View of a cabinet having my holder built therein.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken approximately on line 2-2 of Figure1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and with the recipe carryingand supporting means shown in dotted lines in open position.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken approximately on line 3-3of Figure 2,'looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary View partly in section andillustrates the recipe receiving and supporting means in open positionand the closing the circuit to the lamp of the illuminating means.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the letter A indicates a cabinet ofthe wall type now generally used in kitchens and which has my holderinstalled or built therein, the holder including a handled front wall Ithat is similar to the front wall of the drawer B, so that the holdergives the appearance of a drawer when in closed position. Cabinets ofthis character generally have a partition C providing drawer housingspaces or chambers, and the chamber D is occupied by my holder, asclearly shown in Figure 2.

Mounted within the chamber D and fixed to angle brackets 2 secured tothe partition C and the side wall E respectively, is a pair of spacedparallel guides 3 that are in the form of bands in that they arecontinuous and provided with upper and lower trackways and looped ends.The guides 3 are supported at an upward inclination from the rear endsthereof and the forward end portions 4 of the guides are bent fordisposal in a horizontal plane, as clearly shown in Figure 2.

Bridging the partition C and the Wall E adjacent to the front endsthereof is a shaft 5 having journaled thereon a roller 6 that acts as aforward support for the baseboard l which provides the recipe carryingand supporting means of my holder and the baseboard is fixed to thefront wall I which is of a size to engage the front wall of the chamberas best shown in Figures 2 and 3, to close the opening of the chamber D.

Extending through the rear portion of the ing and holding means toeither its open or closed positions, as shown in the dotted and fulllines of Figure 2. I

The baseboard 1 is preferably tapered longitudinally from its rear toits front ends or in other words decreases in thickness accordingly andthe rear end portion has a groove l0 extending transversely therein andbeing of triangular shape in cross section. Secured to and dependingfrom the upper wall of the chamber D is a stop member ll having itslower end shaped to fit within the groove l0, so as to hold the recipereceiving and carrying means in its tilted or inclined position whenopen, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 2.

In order to detachably secure recipes in sheet relation thereof withrespectto the switch for or book form to the basebo rd I provide aspring clamp I2 of the U-type, and which includes coil springs 13 formedon the arms thereof with the coil springs fixed to the board, so thatthe arms are directed forwardly for the disposal of the bight portionthereof accordingly, so that the recipes can be readily disposed betweenthe clamp and the board for detachably holding; the same with respect tothe board against casual removal or displacement.

The illuminating means in the form as shown includes a lamp I4 mountedin the socket Preferably secured to the partion, as best shown in Figure2, and the front and upper walls of the chamber have reflectors 15secured thereto adjacent to the lamp, while the baseboard I has areflector l6 secured thereto adjacent to its rear end, and upon itsupper surface for cooperation with the reflectors l5, for directing therays from the lamp to the upper surface of the baseboard 4 whichlikewise illustrates that the conductor'2l leads from the screw of thecontact member I! to the lamp it that in turn is connected to a sourceof current 23, while the conductor 22 leads from the screw of thecontactmember i8 to the source 25; which may be a battery as shown, butQ of course it will be understood that suitable means may be providedferconnecting the illuminating means with the house current.

In any event, it will be obvious that when the recipe receiving andcarrying means is moved to its open position, as shown in dotted linesin Figure 2, that the rear end of the baseboard will engage the contactmember l8 and move the same into engagement with the contact member H,and thus close the circuit to the lamp, with I the result it will beseen that the illuminating means is automatic, as the circuit is closedwhen the holder is in use and opened when not in use.

From the above description and the disclose in the drawing, it will beobvious that my holder is The i1- capable of supporting a recipe or abook of recipes at a proper angle, when in use, so that the recipe canbe easily read, and by installing the holder in a cabinet of the walltype as shown, the recipe will be held in an out of the way position andtherefore will not become soiled by the ingredients used in the processof preparing food from the instructions contained in the recipe.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages andnovel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction andin the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided thatsuch changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

In a cabinet having a chamber therein and an opening in the front of thecabinet for the chamber, a book holder comprising a baseboard forreceiving a book or the like thereon, means for detachably securing thebook to the baseboard to be carried thereby, continuous bands securedwithin the chamber adjacent the sides thereof for disposal inparallelism with each other and arranged at an upward inclination towardthe opening, said bands providing'upper and lower trackways havinglooped ends and the forward end portions of the bands being disposed ina horizontal plane, a shaft extending transversely through the baseboardadjacent its rear end, rollers mounted on the extending ends of theshaft and riding on the trackways for movement of said baseboard throughsaid opening for disposal into and out of use, a wall secured to theforward end of the baseboard for closing the opening, a handle securedto the wall, a supportting roller for the baseboard and mounted in thechamber adjacent the opening, said baseboard having a cross sectionaltriangular groove disposed transversely therein adjacent to its rearend, and a rearwardly inclined stop member fixed within the chamber andhaving its lower end disposed in the path of the baseboard and shaped tofit and be received in the groove for cooperation with the forwardlooped ends of the trackways for holding the baseboard at an inclinationwhen in use.

WILMER H. WEIGHT.

